Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
AMBROSE BIERCEFear has no brains; it is an idiot.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
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PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.
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Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.
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Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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